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Nat. Hist# 
TABLE 
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remarkable specimens are, the great crowned 
Indian pigeon ; the shining African thrush ; the 
scarlet or Virginian grosbeak ; the lcng-shafted 
goat-sucker from Sierra Leone; and the European 
goat-sucker. 
It has before been observed, that some birds, on 
account of their inconvenient size, could not be 
admitted into the general assortment. Of these 
the most remarkable is the cassowary, an Indian 
bird, which some ornithologists place among the 
Grallse, others among the Gallinas, and others in 
a particular division distinct from both. 
We must not omit a curious picture, executed 
long ago in Holland, of that extremely rare and 
curious bird the Dodo, belonging to the tribe 
Gallinse, and a native of the island of Bourbon. 
The picture was taken from a living specimen, 
brought into Holland soon after the discovery of 
the passage to the East-Indies by the Cape of 
Good Hope, by the Portuguese. It was once the 
property of Sir Hans Sloane, and afterwards of 
the celebrated ornithologist George Edwards, who 
presented it to the British Museum, 
In this Table are preserved the nests of various 
birds, amongst the most curious of which are se¬ 
veral hanging-nests, chiefly formed by birds of 
the oriole tribe ; nests of a small species of Asia¬ 
tic swallow, resembling isinglass in substance, 
and 
